Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of. Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590-1676

Folger bibliographic ID: 354016
Folger call number: DA378.P4 A3 2018
Folger holdings ID: 502353

Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a vivid description of seventeenth-century life. They reveal a personality that was vulnerable and determined; charitable and canny. Her autobiographies provide a window into a vibrant world of seventeenth-century life as lived by this complex and intriguing seventeenth-century woman

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a vivid description of seventeenth-century life. They reveal a personality that was vulnerable and determined; charitable and canny. Her autobiographies provide a window into a vibrant world of seventeenth-century life as lived by this complex and intriguing seventeenth-century woman

Extended title: Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590-1676 / edited and annotated by Jessica L. Malay

Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676

author: Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
subject: Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
editor: Malay, Jessica L.